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[Tony Croft aka hamadryad]

great photos.

[geoff]

Thanks Hamma,put a couple more up,I'm still getting used to this set up,but they are handheld shots,gone in about as close as I felt ok with,lens to subject about 9inches.

 

 

 

[David Goss]

wow real nice photos! you even caught the beetle having a poo

[geoff]

wow real nice photos! you even caught the beetle having a poo

 

And eating at the same time!

[David Goss]

thats just bad manners, you wouldnt get anyone doing that at my table

[janey]

Janey,I use the same camera as Monkey-D,a canon g12 (or11),...

 

Thanks, hon. I actually understood you as well . What's the Canon like for taking macros without the additional lens?

 

I'm not, and probably never will be, into photography as a medium per se; I just love the extreme close ups of nature specimens and I would like to able to acheive something similar myself on a tight fisted amateur budget. I also like the idea of being able to get highly detailed zoomed in pics for when I'm tree and OPM surveying.

 

Is there a reasonably priced, muppet proof camera on the market that can accomplish both?

[Tony Croft aka hamadryad]

Thanks, hon. I actually understood you as well . What's the Canon like for taking macros without the additional lens?

 

I'm not, and probably never will be, into photography as a medium per se; I just love the extreme close ups of nature specimens and I would like to able to acheive something similar myself on a tight fisted amateur budget. I also like the idea of being able to get highly detailed zoomed in pics for when I'm tree and OPM surveying.

 

Is there a reasonably priced, muppet proof camera on the market that can accomplish both?

 

the LX5:thumbup: 250 quid second hand on ebay

[janey]

the LX5:thumbup: 250 quid second hand on ebay

 

I'll get Googling.

 

That'll be tax deductable as well, won't it:sneaky2:?

[geoff]

As Hamma says,the lx5 is good,thing with these small cameras is you need to be within a couple of inches from the subject to get a good macro,and so you tend to block the light with the camera or yourself,thats why I use these add ons,you can step back and use the digital zoom at its highest setting,but the picture is not of a very high resolution.

an example of the canon g12 at max zoom from about 18 inches;

 

[janey]

I've got a pretty shiny bug of my own that needs IDing, if you'd be so kind.